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in PHP the fileinode() functions returns the inode of a file. I was wondering if I can use it to determine if a file was renamed, moved or modified.
I did some tests and it seems the inode stays the ...

Considering rsync used for incremental OS backup creates hardlink farms for all non-differing files, if I use it to backup a large, slowly-changing system regularly to a dedicated volume, I'm worried ...

I'm assuming that this means that if the average file stored (including directories etc) is less than 16384 bytes, it may be possible to run out of inodes before using the full storage capacity of the ...

Normally when one creates a Linode, they choose a plan, and then deploy a Linux distribution, and choose how much of the disk to allocate. Normally there is a swap partition and a main partition.
But ...

Need help in determining how to do the following:
Using the quota command, what is the number of occupied inodes by you in your pool account home directory? Find them out, with what type of file how ...

It surprises me to see find iterate/walk through the complete filesystem when I do a simple
find -inum 12345
Without background info it seems to me that there should be much easier ways for to tell ...

I've been studying up on the ext2 file system and inodes, and I'm not quite understanding a few things.
How big is an inode? The output from tune2fs says its 256 for my system, so is that 256 byes?
...

I have an Amazon EC2 instance which I am using as a NFS file server.
It's using a 5x1TB volume RAID0 array.
The system is very I/O intensive and files are being written/copied/deleted through the NFS ...

I have several vps guests that were created by virt-resize. I do daily backups on the guests by creating a snapshot and rsync file contents. But some of them don't have a clean disk image.
As soon as ...

I have a RHEL 6 box with an NFS mount, mounted using autofs. I copied a big folder, with a lot of small files there, and used up all of my inodes, but I still have 80% of my storage space left, this ...

When tar is asked to archive a directory, does it create a new inode for each file system object? If yes, how does it query and save the meta-data? Won't the format of storing this inode metadata vary ...

My server keeps running short on inodes due the mail queue getting crazy.
First, I assumed I had postfix not configured properly, so I switched it off.
But, it happened again, last time I did it I had ...

A friend of mine who likes programming in the Linux environment, but doesn't know much about the administration of Linux recently ran into a problem where his OS (Ubuntu) was reporting "out of disk ...

I've accidentally deleted some files in my package managers's cache after an update (so I've deleted all packages that were downloade and unforunately they weren't even installed).
Here's what I've ...

I'm running a CentOS 4.6 final box with a second drive array (raid 1, the mount is /mnt/raid, as listed below in my nagios warning) that uses ntfs-3g as the file system. My nagios warnings just went ...

Can anyone tell me if this is true or false?
Does the inode of a file have the addresses of blocks containing the file's content?
Also for the permission command, there was a question asking that I ...

I am trying to learn about iNodes and file permissions. I thought that there is one inode that holds the permissions for a single file. The OS pulls a single inode into memory to check permissions for ...

I have a web-site that I'm checking for performance issues and bugs, and i came across a caching code that caches thousands of files into one single directory.
I understand that this is not good and ...